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Adjective: toiling  toy-ling
  1. Doing arduous or unpleasant work
    "toiling coal miners in the black deeps";
    - drudging, laboring [US], labouring [Brit, Cdn]
Verb: toil  toyl
  1. Work hard
    "Lexicographers toil all day long";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], fag [informal], travail [literary], grind [informal], drudge, dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer]

See also: busy

Type of: work

Encyclopedia: Toil